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2014-12-04 / 2 Comments

Practicality wins.

I’ve long suspected that Mozilla’s leadership didn’t understand why Firefox beat IE. It wasn’t because Firefox was idealistically superior — open source, free of charge, superior support for open standards — but because it was just plain better to use.

John Gruber

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  1. kOoLiNuS says:

    I’ve quoted this exact phrase in my italian blog 😀

    2014-12-06 — 3:01 am

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